Parallels is a worldwide leader in hosting and cloud service enablement and desktop virtualization. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 800 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia. Parallels is comprised of two business areas: Hosting and Cloud Services Enablement, and Desktop Virtualization and Mac.

Hosting and Cloud Services Enablement Business
Parallels makes it easier for service providers to grow and Profit from the Cloud™ with service delivery software, expertise, and its partner ecosystem. More than 9,000 service providers rely on Parallels to profitably deliver thousands of applications and cloud services to more than 10 million small and medium businesses (SMBs) in 125 countries. The company’s customers and partners include traditional Web hosters, communication service providers; value added resellers (VARs), distributors and website designers. 

The company’s flagship hosting and cloud services integration mechanism – Application Packaging Standard (APS) – is a free and open industry standard that creates a simple and fast way for cloud services providers to offer new services, including aggregated services provided by third parties. The APS ecosystem includes hundreds of independent software vendors (ISVs), who rely on Parallels service provider partners as additional channels to reach millions of SMBs.

Desktop Virtualization and Mac Business
Parallels desktop virtualization makes it possible and simple for consumers and businesses of all sizes to run applications they need on a variety of platforms. More than three million users worldwide rely on Parallels Desktop for Mac to simplify their computing experience. The No. 1-selling and award-winning Parallels Desktop for Mac software empowers businesses, enterprises and consumers to run Windows and Mac applications side-by-side on a Mac without rebooting1; it also works with Parallels Mobile to enable seamless access to Windows or Mac applications from mobile devices.

Hosting and Cloud Services Enablement Business
Parallels Plesk Panel – The industry’s most widely deployed hosting automation and server control panel. This complete and profitable solution for smaller web-hosting companies and web designers enables them to manage all aspects of their business while allowing their SMB customers to easily access hundreds of commercial and open-sources applications. More than 50,000 smaller hosting providers and web-design firms rely on Parallels Plesk Panel to efficiently and profitably run their business.

Parallels Automation – A powerful hosting and cloud service delivery solution used by larger service providers to profitably build, operate, and manage their hosting and cloud services. Service providers who implement Parallels Automation are able to deploy new services faster, reduce their operational costs, and increase average revenue per user. Parallels Automation provides all of the key operational functions of a service provider’s business, including: customer self-service, provisioning and orchestration, ordering and billing, and infrastructure management. More than 40 percent of the top 30 communication service providers use Parallels Automation today to deliver hosting and cloud services to SMBs.

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers – Operating system virtualization solution that enables the most efficient and profitable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) through up-to3x-higher density of virtual servers than hypervisor solutions and reduced management and operation overhead. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is used by thousands of service providers to deliver a wide range from services, from simple virtual private servers to cloud computing and virtual datacenter services.

Desktop Virtualization and Mac Business
Parallels Desktop for Mac – The No. 1-selling and award-winning solution for running Windows and Mac applications side-by-side on a Mac without rebooting1. Parallels Desktop for Mac provides the fastest way for more than three million people to simply and seamlessly run Windows applications on Macs. The Switch to Mac Edition also moves an existing Windows PC to a Mac in just a few clicks – including all programs, files, settings, and browser bookmarks – and includes more than two hours of video tutorials. The Enterprise Edition supports simplified mass deployment and configuration, corporate policy and licensing compliance, change management and more to meet the needs of IT professionals and business users.

Parallels Mobile – This service lets Parallels Desktop for Mac users remotely access their Macs (and all their OS X and Windows applications) from anywhere, via an app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Parallels Mobile also works with Parallels Workstation to provide access a PC’s guest operating systems and applications.

Parallels Workstation – Simultaneously run a wide variety of Windows versions, Linux distributions, web stacks, database configurations, and multi-tier cloud environments on a single PC with the power and performance required for web development, QA testing, and product demonstrations.

Parallels Workstation Extreme – The world’s only solution that enables direct assignment of graphics cards to virtual machines so one workstation can run multiple demanding and graphically intensive 64-bit and 32-bit programs – on multiple operating systems – for individual or multiple users simultaneously. 

• Founded in 1999
• 800+ employees worldwide
• 3+ million computers powered by Parallels Desktop
• Serving 5,000+ service providers and 12+ million end-user customers in 125 countries
• 200+ partnerships including Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and Symantec

Online

Web	www.parallels.com
Blogs	www.parallels.com/blogs
Careers	www.parallels.com/careers
Twitter	@ParallelsMac @ParallelsCloud @ParallelsPanel
Facebook	www.facebook.com/ParallelsDesktop www.facebook.com/ParallelsCloud
YouTube	www.youtube.com/parallelstv

Contacts

Corporate Communications, Desktop Virtualization and Mac, Public & Analyst Relations
John Uppendahl, juppendahl(at)parallels.com, +1-425-282-1734

Service Provider Public & Analyst Relations, Marketing Alliances
Rich Teplitsky, richt(at)parallels.com, +1-425-282-6751
NPD Techworld Reports 1/31/2012

1. NPD Techworld Reports 1/31/2012